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Conference turris::womannotes-v2

Title:ARCHIVE-- Topics of Interest to Women, Volume 2 --ARCHIVE
Notice:V2 is closed. TURRIS::WOMANNOTES-V5 is open.
Moderator:REGENT::BROOMHEAD
Created:Thu Jan 30 1986
Last Modified:Fri Jun 30 1995
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:1105
Total number of notes:36379

160.0. "Mid-cycle pain" by GENRAL::REAVES () Wed Sep 07 1988 12:38

	Around the middle of my monthly cycle, I experience a heavy
	discharge and a feeling of bloatedness and heaviness in my 
	lower abdomen.  The feeling is so intense that it hurts.  
        Normally, it lasts a few days and then goes away.  My doctor
	says its just a change in the cervical mucous because it's
        about the time of ovulation.  But the discharge is so heavy
        and I never had it before I had my son, now 20 months old.
        Does anyone experience anything similar?  It's very 
        uncomfortable, and I'd do almost anything to stop having it 
        every month - it's worse than my period, which I can handle 
        just fine!

	Any suggestions on what it might be would be appreciated!

        Cat

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160.1also slick for five daysCOMET::EVANSMFri Sep 09 1988 19:0032
    Rapid Disclaimer, I'm mixing some science with my own opinions and
    experiences.  This may be meaningless, but here goes.
    
    Facts are:  Everyone who ovulates has a cervical mucous change at
    midcycle with the cervical mucous getting "stringier" and more profuse.
    Cervixes change after every pregnancy, no matter how they were ended.
    (childbirth, miscarriage, or abortion.)  Generally the cervix gets
    larger and the opening is also larger.
    
    Opinion and personal experience.  I also didn't notice much of a
    discharge before my first child was born.  Afterwards, I started
    noticing that I was alot more slippery at midcycle, and since my
    second was born, I have a virtual torrent.  I have two ideas of why
    this has happened but no solutions to your problem, other than to
    stop ovulating.  Your cervix has more area and therfore more space
    to create its mucous at ovulation.  My other idea is that after
    a pregnancy and birth you may notice more of what your body is doing
    than you did before your child was born.  The combination of both
    is what I've decided is why I seem to notice my cycle and it's effect
    on me more.
    
    If you've been to the doctor, and have a clean bill of health, I
    guess the only thing to say is live with it (my solution for me),
    look at it as an advantage for fertility detection, and feel like
    changing your clothes every two hours.  I also know what that feels
    like.
    
    Good luck,
    
    Meg
    
     
160.2me tooDOODAH::RANDALLBonnie Randall SchutzmanThu Sep 15 1988 11:2513
    This is the problem for which they developed those lightweight
    panty liners, like thin sanitary pads.  Helps keep down the
    laundry. 
    
    I find that avoiding salt during that week helps reduce the ache
    quite a lot.  And eating a high-bulk snack, such as unsalted
    popcorn or raw vegetables, for two or three days also helps
    sometimes. 

    If the pain gets too bad, there's always (assuming you're not
    nursing) aspirin/tylenol/ibuprofen. 

    --bonnie